Database: LAPD settlements

The amount of money the city of Los Angeles has paid out involving lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Department has dropped over 90 percent between 2000 and 2008. Police attribute that to the fact that the city has gotten past the payouts since the Rampart Division scandal that started in 1997. But police face another wave of big payouts since cops roughed up members of the public and the press during a May Day rally in 2007. Search our database of nearly 1,600 lawsuits.